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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 November 2008
      04 September 2008
      ISBN:
      9781139001922
      9780521862356
      9780521680837
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 330 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 330 Pages
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    More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its influence on other genres; its reflections of empire and nationalism, both within and outside the British Isles; and the various implications of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership. Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside the achievements of some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Clare.

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    'The Cambridge Companion series has been a very successful venture, presenting readers with handy, up-to-date collections of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars on a wide range of authors and topics.'

    Source: Australian Book Review

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